Job Summary:
This position will manage complex and challenging software projects related to our custom SaaS product and other business critical applications. As the Technical Program Manager, you will be asked to build project schedules, track milestones, and identify dependencies. Similarly, the person serving in this role will identify risks and issues, craft mitigation strategies to effectively address these items, escalating to project leadership when appropriate. The successful candidate will be effective at building a rapport with internal and external stakeholders, driving decisions among cross-functional teams, and coordinating activities to ensure the overall success of the project.
Job Goals:
- Coordinate activities across diverse and distributed teams to ensure successful and timely outcomes of project deliverables
- Drive decisions among teams and escalate challenges to leadership
- Act as a single point of contact for project related communications
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage resources and deliverables related to project tasks, schedules, scope, risks, and any acceptance criteria. Update related project documents as necessary.
- Conduct thorough risk assessments and develop thoughtful risk mitigation strategies as well as contingency plans. Anticipate problems and take decisive action. When an issue materializes, provide guidance, offering thoughtful suggestions on how to address the problem and to keep the team collectively moving forward.
- Prioritize tasks to meet project goals, assigning work across multiple work streams and following up to ensure successful and timely completion. Provide assistance with competing priorities, offering guidance, resources, and tools to address constraints.
- Drive decisions essential to the success of the project across a diverse group of stakeholders. This includes facilitating meetings, organizing working sessions, and providing clarity around requirements and deadlines.
- Monitor project milestones and metrics. Utilize data to inform leadership of our current progress and support future decision making. Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information from all available sources.
- Aid in communication and change management. Serve as the single point of contact related to project communications. Partner with team members to ensure change management initiatives are appropriate and support desired outcomes.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field. Work experience in place of formal education will be considered.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of project management work experience
- Experienced with developing and overseeing project schedules, mitigating risks, controlling scope, and consistently applying standard project management processes
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively lead cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives, prioritize tasks, and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Familiarity with project management tools, processes, and methodologies. Experience with Microsoft Project a plus.
- Experience leading software and / or IT projects required; demonstrated ability to lead teams using Agile methodologies strongly preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
We offer full medical, dental, and vision insurance with day-one coverage, 401k with company matching beginning on day one, Life, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability at no cost to our employees, paid holidays, paid time off, leadership development training programs and additional benefits to support our strong commitment to the development of each team member.
GPRS is an Equal Opportunity employer
About GPRS:
GPRS is the nation’s largest company dedicated to Intelligently Visualizing the Built World®. Since 2001, we’ve grown from a single GPR unit into a $200M industry leader helping teams across the U.S. plan, build, and manage safer, smarter projects.
We deliver critical insight through utility mapping, GPR and concrete scanning, 3D modeling, reality capture, and digital facility records, giving our clients confidence from design through construction and beyond.
Our Purpose:
To provide possibility for our team members and customers by intelligently visualizing the built world.
GPRS Core Values:
- Integrity
- Teamwork
- Mutual Respect
- Growth Mindedness
- Safety
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field; equivalent work experience may substitute.
- Minimum of 5–7 years of project management experience.
- Experience developing and overseeing project schedules, mitigating risks, controlling scope, and applying standard project management processes.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives, prioritize tasks, and adapt to changing priorities.
- Familiarity with project management tools, processes, and methodologies.
- Experience leading software and/or IT projects.
- Experience leading teams using Agile methodologies.
- Experience with Microsoft Project.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
What We Do
GPRS envisions a tomorrow with the capability of 100% subsurface damage prevention. We will pursue all avenues of technology, training and methodology to realize this goal of safety for our clients. Our 99.8%+ accuracy rating on over 250,000 projects leads the industry. When our newest offering of 3D Laser Scanning is combined with Utility Locating, Ground Penetrating Radar, Video Pipe Inspection, Leak Detection and Concrete Scanning - you receive the most comprehensive subsurface solutions available. We exist to provide the best opportunities and development for team members while delivering a sensational experience to our customers, preventing them from experiencing the problems associated with unknown subsurface elements. GPRS is the nation’s largest company specializing in the detection of underground utilities, CCTV Pipe Inspections and the scanning of concrete structures. GPRS has an extensive nationwide network of highly trained and experienced technicians in every major U.S. market. Utilizing GPR reduces risk and cost, promotes a safe work environment, and provides non-destructive testing by locating materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, steel, rock, soil, ice, and pavement. Our client base includes hospitals, universities, surveyors, engineers, homeowners, contractors, environmentalists, and excavators.
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